New Tonghui Hotel Chengdu
No.25 Qinghua Road, Qingyang District Chengdu, Sichuan, China
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Panda Delight
... of the Buddha in all its glory. The trek out was a long slog. The path went down to the river and back up to the ground level. It was beating a lot of the Chinese tourists with many taking breaks dotted along the path. I finally came out at the south exit, passing through villages into a very rural area. I walked through people's back yards before I found the road again and a bus stop. I sent Dan a text to tell him I got a bit lost but that id meet him at ...
Pandas!
... at her house! She doesn’t know what to do with him. At this point we are down to 20 minutes. Finally the bags arrive and we pack the medicine. By this time Tu Wu and Harvey are getting along pretty well. She actually invites us over for dinner when we return to Chengdu. She only lives about 15 minutes from the airport. She personally escorts us through security and we are off to Guilin.
We board our ...
Kicking off the ESC program in Chengdu
... up again for dinner, at the buffet to end all buffets - a vast selection of items including dozens of fruits, salads and appetizers, a sushi train, a peking duck carving station, raw oysters, sashimi and chilled seafood, many many hot dishes, soups and stews, various unrecognizable or questionable things (did I see deep fried insects or was that some other critter?), and countless desserts including two chocolate fountains. Not to mention the items they ...
Last full day and night
... Chongqing made a Manhattan like impression. Chong Quing means Two
Good Things, it has a history of 3,000 years. Since 1997 it is the youngest of four municipalities in China, after Being, Shanghai meaning that they are directly under the direction of the
central government. It has 32 million people, and is bigger than Beijing. We had a pleasant, unplanned tour of the city of which the City Guild Hall made the ...
Pandas & Hot pot.
Well it's been another few days full of surprises and adventures.
We arrived in Chengdu after a grueling 26 hour train ride. Yes, you read that right, 26 hours straight on a train. It was our longest travel day yet ! The train we were on was not very impressive. The carriage wasn't very clean, and squat toilets are never fun. We shared our cabin of 6 beds (3 stacked on each side) with 4 other adults, and two babies. Thankfully the babies ...


